Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 78

Episode 78

: Burnt Snow Field

“What are you talking about? “That’s not possible!”

“Leader! So the king…!”

The SS members strongly opposed the order.

The king is being held hostage, but the Royal Guard does nothing and retreats?

It was a humiliation that could never happen.

but.

“First of all, protecting Your Majesty’s safety comes first! I will take full responsibility, so get out! What are you doing! “Hurry up and don’t open the road!”

In the end, following Irina’s shouting, the SS had to retreat hesitantly.

But all the while, shame, humiliation, and anger were written on the faces of the SS members.

And all eyes were on Elric.

* * *

“…I can really be like this, right?”

While he was clinging to Elric, King Velence trembled slightly with his complexion turning white.

When I first heard that Elric was going to take me hostage, I was so dizzy.

No matter how hard I tried to act dignified, I couldn’t do it as easily as I did back then.

However, Elric’s next words made King Velence’s heart stronger.

-So your people won’t get hurt?

Elric’s logic was very simple.

No matter how much the ministers and officials have other agendas behind their backs, they cannot harm King Velence carelessly as long as he still has legitimacy and authority.

No, even if he had the intention to do so, it would be difficult to do so rashly if all the citizens of Antromov were watching.

The explanation was that as long as the king was here, even the armed forces, the Royal Guard, would not be able to attack them carelessly, so they could leave the city without causing much trouble.

In the end, as Elric said, she was taken hostage and the situation came to this point.

Seeing all the citizens and even the SS from the top of the spire was even more dizzying than I expected.

Although he couldn’t speak, King Velence actually had a fear of heights.

“Don’t worry. There is no surer way than this. “There are no major conflicts even now, right?”

Nod.

King Velence could no longer look down and closed his eyes tightly.

“By the way, that guy is really good at acting.”

You may or may not know about the hardship(?) of King Velence.

Elric shook his head as he looked at Fen, who was still clinging to Irina’s pants and bursting into tears.

When asked if he would go out with me, he said he would stay here. Only then will the hostage taking be successful.

And it made the atmosphere much more mature than expected. Although the conversation could not be heard properly, there was an appropriate amount of fear created to prevent the SS from attacking them hastily.

‘How can I not have a chance to learn later? I think you can become a great actor even if you go to the Empire right now.’

Elric’s eyes sparkled as he thought such an unusual thought.

This was because the SS was opening the way according to Irina’s orders.

“It opened the way! So hurry and release your highness!”

Irina shouted with a lot of magic in her voice.

The sound was so loud that it shook the city.

‘You have a good voice, too.’

Elric showed off his most villainous smile while casually saying something that would have made Irina even more angry if she had heard it.

『Anyone can see that he is a villain, but he is ‘downed’. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“What do we believe in you? The King will be with us until we are completely out of the city! It’s right after that that the king is released! Until then, don’t even think about chasing me!”

“Why should we believe that you will release the king! “I know what harm I can do!”

“Then just follow the lady with a good voice. Leave enough distance. “Okay then?”

“Ah, ma’am?”

At that moment, Irina’s temple protruded, but Elric paid no attention.

“Of course, it would be best not to use tricks and have other SS members secretly follow you. “You haven’t forgotten that I’m a wizard, right?”

“…i get it.”

“Leader!”

“It’s too dangerous, Captain!”

Although the SS members all shouted that it was dangerous, Irina’s resolve did not waver.

“no. It’s a decision I’ve already made. And once this is over, I will take responsibility and resign, so I can protect this place.”

Each member of the SS gritted their teeth and moved back further, opening the way wide.

Elric’s eyes sparkled and he motioned to the other party members to quickly get out of there.

[Hehehe! Really, I’ll never be bored with you, so I’ll be so happy!]

Augustine was the first to send a message and grinned.

[Be careful.]

[Anyway, how come accidents never stop when I’m next to you? I didn’t want to be caught up in something like this anymore… I’m really going crazy. Ha!]

Hayes’ worried gaze and Sean’s sigh.

Herman and others looked at Elric with expressions of fun and then left the city.

“…Can we really get away with making such a mess?”

King Velence asked the last remaining Elric with a half-fazed look on his face.

“Don’t you know the position of the horse? “There’s nothing you can do when you’re on top of a running tiger.”

“…It must be an illusion to think that the tiger is me, right?”

Elric thought that the young Tiger King was somehow sharp and immediately followed after his companions.

As promised, the SS and citizens remained in the city and followed only Irina at a certain distance.

* * *

“Puhaha! I heard that Lascent’s hero was a famous asshole even at Wooden Academy! “This is even more amazing than you thought?”

Hermann’s second oldest brother, Lasel, was so excited about this moment that he couldn’t stop laughing the entire time he was running as if he was dying.

The third, Haman, also nodded.

“Even when our brothers were running around, we caused a lot of all kinds of accidents… but we’ve never kidnapped a king like this and run away, right?”

“So that’s what I’m saying. Wow! Ever since my niece Isabel was young, she insisted that she would never meet bastards like us. Look. “Once you fall in love with our charm, you can’t get out of it?”

Isabelle, who was still riding on Herman’s back, became upset when she heard those words.

“How can Elric be like your uncles? The motivations are different from the beginning. “Your uncles are just making a fuss, but Elric is just!”

“no way! If you wear it on your nose, it’s a nose ring. If you wear it in your ears, it’s an earring. “We didn’t do anything that bad either?”

“You have a bad face!”

“…Isn’t it okay to attack my nephew personally?”

“There is!”

“Shit! “There’s nothing to say about this!”

When Isabel first sent a messenger for help, the sworn brothers wondered what was going on with their eldest brother, who had been silent all this while.

Except for Hermann, the eldest, the other five were bastards who ran rampant without knowing the fear of the world, to the point where they thought they would be lucky if they didn’t get into an accident when they were young.

Even as they got older, they couldn’t let go of that temperament, so they eventually left Herman, who chose ‘seclusion’, and went back to their own lives.

At the same time, they looked forward to Herman coming back to visit them someday.

Whatever it was, the time I spent with Hermann was the most pleasant and fun.

From time to time, they heard rumors that Hermann’s half-brother, Paul Weil, was aiming for the position of Blue Lion without knowing the subject, but each time they were busy snorting and saying that they did not know the subject.

Meanwhile, I received such a message…

I was so surprised at the time.

When I later found out that Hermann suffered from paralysis and was in danger of his life, and that Paul had even targeted Isabelle, I thought the sky was turning yellow.

And I ground my teeth.

Not only did they dare to push their eldest brother, whom they respected, to the brink of death, but they also cannot forgive the foul that put their beautiful nephew in danger.

If Hermann had just said a word to pick up any part of the foul, he might have moved immediately.

But Hermann didn’t do that.

The affairs of the Weil family are problems that must be resolved by members of the Weil family. This means that it is absolutely not a matter for outsiders to interfere.

Lasel and Haman, who are impatient, went to great lengths to tell them not to vent their anger, but Herman’s unique stubbornness could not end.

Instead, Hermann asked his sworn brothers for another favor.

-Protect your daughter.

And one more thing.

-My body isn’t fully healed yet and I think I need some treatment, so please be by my side and talk to me.

Meanwhile, the brothers followed Hermann to the Imperial Capital, and from there they came to the Black Snowfield.

Because I have come such a long way. To exaggerate, it was like crossing about a third of the continent, so I was curious about who Elric was who was training them like this.

And this is how we met.

‘You’re hitting a goal, right?’

All five brothers except Hermann were able to intuitively recognize it.

‘This is him.’

‘It’s clear! ‘They are the same as us!’

‘Puhahaha! It must not have been easy to find people like us. ‘Where on earth did you find such talent?’

None of them would have thought that they could make the commotion they created so much bigger!

Is there anything I feel a little regretful about?

‘If only the face is ours, it’s the icing on the cake! Mmm! ‘That’s a bit of a shame, isn’t it?’

When Isabelle asked if her face was a sin, she tried to say how much of a difference there was between Elric’s face and hers, but she couldn’t bring it up out of conscience.

Unlike them, who had grown vicious(?) as they had been wandering around the battlefield for one reason or another since childhood, Elric had a handsome face that anyone could tell that he was the son of a noble family.

She has blonde hair that seems to pour in light and green eyes that look like emeralds.

Is that a doll’s face or a human face?

‘Well, I guess that’s what my nephew liked.’

Still, the sworn brothers were careful as long as they were Saenim.

We might end up in the same family in the future, so wouldn’t it be better to be someone you can get into trouble with?

“…hmm?”

For a moment, Elric looked like he was wondering why Hermann and his brothers–the famous ones known as the ‘Blue Hawks’–were staring at him.

『That’s the face you see when you meet someone in the same industry.』

[What… do you mean?]

『He’s very happy to see you. hmm! There are six more people like this. No matter how you look at this, it’s a bit dangerous.』

Is it because I’ve suffered too much from Elric so far?

Mephisto looked disapprovingly at the blue hawk, which had a very strong Elric scent(?).

Elric couldn’t help but get angry.

The Blue Hawk had as much infamy as it did fame.

‘Why don’t you gather bandits and hold something strange like the world’s best bandit competition or something? Don’t you float in the open sea for a month to catch a kraken with a bamboo fishing rod… How do I compare to the guys who went around doing all kinds of crazy things like that? !’

But Elric couldn’t even say those words.

On one side, Sean was looking at him with rotten eyes.

[…What is that face?]

[I had no idea.]

[What?]

[The world is very wide.]

[…What does it mean?]

[And that there are as many kinites as there are grains of sand. ]

[So what are you saying…!]

At that moment, a rotten smile appeared on Sean’s lips.

[You’re not saying you really don’t know, right?]

[….]

Elric could no longer meet Sean’s gaze and had to turn his head to the side.

And I decided not to respond at all.

[What are you going to do more than that? That person, the guard captain or something, is still chasing them, and Antromorph will probably try to do something about it.]

The beast people have very strong pride. It was clear that after going through this humiliation, they would never let their group go.

[Oh, that. don’t worry. Because no one will come after me.]

“What are you talking about? “No one will come after you?”

Sean thought this wasn’t a conversation to be had through message magic, so he asked in his voice.

Everyone’s eyes automatically turned to Elric.

Looking at them, Elric smiled and told them about his unfinished plans.

The more this happened, the more strangely the faces of the companions changed, and eventually their jaws dropped and their mouths widened.

『…No matter how you look at it, he is more like a devil than a devil. If Shaytan had known about this guy first, he would have lost his job.』

Mephisto shook his head in exasperation and sighed, thinking that even the most evil being known among the Demon Lords could not compare to this.

‘what! Wasn’t this the end? ‘Is there something more fun?’

‘That’s right. Same as us.’

‘We should be friends from now on.’

‘I have to tell Isabelle. You can’t miss this guy! ‘He is a talented person who will succeed us, or has already surpassed us! We must not miss him!’

The blue hawks looked at Elric with even more sparkling eyes.

“…I’m confused, I’m confused.”

On the contrary, Sean’s worries became even deeper.

Wizard who swallowed talent